The show was on break when Sean Spicer, who owes some of his household-name status to Melissa McCarthy's recurring "SNL" impersonation, resigned from his post as White House press secretary and passed the briefing mic to his successor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Relief came Thursday as NBC marked the first of four prime-time "Weekend Update" stand-alone episodes. Co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che welcomed Scaramucci — "The Mooch" — as one of their first guests of the summer (as played by former "SNL" star Bill Hader).

On his whirlwind tenure as White House communications director, "Update's" Mooch insisted his sacrifices were worth it: "All I did was sell my company, miss the birth of my child and ruin my reputation...to be king of 'Idiot Mountain' for 11 days."

The anchors quickly ran through some of the big news items they'd missed, including the president's recent exchanges of threats with North Korea. It was tough to take President Donald Trump's tough talk seriously, Jost said, as he delivered threats while sitting down during his 17-day working vacation at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.

The show also welcomed Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. ("SNL" castmates Alex Moffat and Mikey Day), to talk about "some of the amazing things [their] father is doing" and to call Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer a "nothing-burger."